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Early-life circumstances and racial disparities in cognition for older Americans : the importance of educational quality and experiences

Lin, Zhuoer; Ye, Justin; Allore, Heather; Gill, Thomas M.; … - 2024

Given the critical role of neurocognitive development in early life, this study assesses how racial differences in early-life circumstances are collectively and individually associated with racial disparities in late-life cognition. Leveraging uniquely rich information on life history from the...

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Early-life circumstances and racial disparities in cognition for older Americans : the importance of educational quality and experiences

Lin, Zhuoer; Ye, Justin; Allore, Heather; Gill, Thomas M.; … - 2024

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Ageing and Skills: A Review and Analysis of Skill Gain and Skill Loss Over the Lifespan and Over Time

Desjardins, Richard; Warnke, Arne Jonas - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2012

The relationship between ageing and skills is becoming an important policy issue, not least in the context of … population ageing. Data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will potentially add … considerably to the understanding of the relationship between ageing and foundation skills. In particular, the fact that data from …

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Vintage Effects, Ageing and Productivity

Lovász, Anna; Rigó, Mariann - 2012

We provide new empirical evidence on the link between age and productivity using a transitional context. Building on a model of skill obsolescence, we assess the long-term adjustment process following a sudden change in skills needed in production that severely worsened older workers' labor...

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Workforce ageing and the training propensity of Italian firms: cross-sectional evidence from the INDACO survey

Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In this paper, I provide a probit analysis in which the propensity of private Italian firms to offer on-the-job training is linked to the age and the gender of the employed workforce as well as to a set of relevant corporate characteristics such as size, sector, geographical location, innovation...

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Television, cognitive ability, and high school completion

Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016

We exploit supply-driven heterogeneity in the expansion of cable television across Norwegian municipalities to identify developmental effects of commercial television exposure during childhood. We find that higher exposure to commercial television reduces cognitive ability and high school...

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Protestantism and human capital in Guatemala and the Republic of Korea

McCleary, Rachel M. - 2013

Protestant missions from the United States entered the Republic of Korea and Guatemala at the same time (1884 and 1882, respectively). Yet, their impact on human capital has been divergent. The analysis presented in this paper supports the findings of Woodberry (2004, 2009, 2011) and Nunn (2009)...

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A teenager in love : multidimensional human capital and teenage pregnancy in Ghana

Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2017 - This version: March 15, 2017

educational attainment, and adult literacy program participation. Pursuing several alternative identification strategies three … completed primary school, adult literacy program participation is associated with a much lower probability of experiencing a …

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A teenager in love : multidimensional human capital and teenage pregnancy in Ghana

Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2017

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Do pension benefits accelerate cognitive decline? : evidence from rural China

Nikolov, Plamen; Hossain, Shahadat Md. - 2022

Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation, rather than on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. To investigate how human capital depreciates over the life cycle, we examine how a newly introduced pension program, the National Rural...

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